The Effects of Crop Intensification on the Diversity of Native Pollinator Communities

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 865-872

  Mogren, Christina L ^a,b   Rand, Tatyana A ^c   Fausti, Scott W ^d   Lundgren, Jonathan G ^a,e  

^a NORTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Ecdysis Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

agrobiont; Cropland Data Layer; landscape simplification; Melissodes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FORAGE; GRASS; INSECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAIZE; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DECLINE; SOYBEAN; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BROOKINGS COUNTY; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

APOIDEA; GLYCINE MAX; HALICTIDAE; HEXAPODA; MELISSODES; SYRPHIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ALFALFA; ANIMAL; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCEDURES; SOUTH DAKOTA; SOYBEAN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH DAKOTA; SOYBEANS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84982102745     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: 19382936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvw066     Document Type: Article

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